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In Baltimore City, approximately 20,000 people were arrested for drug-related offenses annually in 2012 and 2013; nearly three quarters for simple possession. And while there has been a great deal of discussion over the last few years regarding the incarceration of individuals for drug crimes, particularly in minority communities, the fact is that most drug cases in Baltimore do not result in confinement, except for those unfortunate enough not to have the funds to post bail while awaiting trial. Instead, defendants' cases are either dismissed for various reasons or defendants are placed on some form of post-conviction supervision. Notably, the re-arrest rate for many of these...

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In Baltimore City, approximately 20,000 people were arrested for drug-related offenses annually in 2012 and 2013; nearly three quarters for simple possession. And while there has been a great deal of discussion over the last few years regarding the...

Five men, including one who led police on a 2013 high speed chase that ended in a crash in Harford County, have all been sentenced in connection with what federal prosecutors say was a multi-state drug distribution conspiracy.
The leader of the ring,...

When his National Guard company deployed to Afghanistan in 2013, Derrick Jones could have retired. Instead, the 23-year veteran went to the war zone to "see that the mission was a complete success," according to one of his supervisors.But his...

Two Maryland natives were among four Wesleyan University students arrested Tuesday in connection with about a dozen hospitalizations among people who took a party drug known as Molly.
The students, including one from Lutherville and another from...

On a cool evening in April 2012, a Range Rover drove away from a home in the Arlington section of Northwest Baltimore. When the car parked a few miles away, police finally tied a suspected drug dealer to a stash house, Detective Ramon Lugo wrote in a...

Calling heroin a crisis that crosses state boundaries, Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh said Thursday that his office will join counterparts in the Northeast to share information and jointly prosecute drug traffickers.
"We will have a...

Faced with the realities of an estimated 5 percent of Maryland high school freshmen having tried heroin and police in Harford County having investigated 17 overdoses on the drug in six weeks, public school officials in the county say they're working to...

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh's announcement this week that his office will join counterparts in five other states — Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania — to share information that helps authorities track down and...

Tavon White, described by authorities as a calculating gang leader who essentially took over the Baltimore jail to smuggle drugs in cahoots with corrections officers, drew compliments from a federal judge and prosecutor at his sentencing Monday.
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This roundup of crime briefs from around the area isn't meant to be a comprehensive compilation of Maryland crime news, but a snapshot of some of the newsworthy incidents from across our region.
Here's a look at some of the crime that's happened recently...

The recent dismissal of charges against a suspected drug dealer by U.S. District Judge George Russell III based on "inconsistencies" in the warrant is just another example to support why there is so much criminal activity, especially drug...

A Glen Burnie man who accidentally shot his 23-year-old son in the stomach with a shotgun Tuesday was charged with drug dealing and gun charges after police found marijuana in the home and discovered he was prohibited from owning firearms.Ronald Phelps,...

After more than two months of testimony, the federal trial of eight defendants in the Baltimore City Detention Center corruption case is expected to be presented to the jury for deliberations as soon as Wednesday.
Defense attorneys for the two inmates,...

The courtroom drama from the Black Guerrilla Family's lust- and drug-fueled reign at the Baltimore jail is all but over, now that the last of 40 convictions was secured last week.But Maryland's new corrections secretary says the battle against crime and...

He lives and works in the cramped, cinder-block back room of a nail and waxing salon in an Albuquerque, N.M., strip mall.
He drives a car so trashed-out, junky-looking and old that it's impossible to determine its make.
And he practices law from the...

Harford County Executive Barry Glassman vowed to launch a multifaceted fight against the county's heroin "epidemic," using his first State of the County address to describe his personal experience with a young man who died from the drug.
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A federal jury convicted five people and acquitted three others Thursday in a Baltimore jailhouse corruption case, ending a two-month trial that saw a parade of inmates, disgraced corrections officers and law enforcement officers describe an...

Good to have you back, Jim, even if your coworkers don’t agree.
Jim’s on a mission to put every bad guy behind bars. But the bad guy this time isn’t the predictable super-villain or a mafia crony. Instead, it’s the most insidious and hardest to catch:...

An owner of a popular Baltimore diner that has been featured on a television food show was arrested in a federal sting and charged with conspiring to possess and sell cocaine, federal criminal records show.
U.S. prosecutors said Anthony Vasiliades, who...